Word: photographs
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...years, in weekly and monthly editions as well as in specials and books, LIFE chronicled the world in pictures, proving time and again, even as video technologies exploded and our ideas of sensory experience expanded, that there was what Luce called "a dynamic power" in the still image. A photograph could command attention and demand contemplation--it could evoke or provoke an emotion--in a way that words, standing alone, simply could...
FACES IN THE NEWS Match each numbered description to the photograph of the newsmaker who fits it best...
Balloting must be standardized. Clearly, this has got out of hand. The Republicans have proposed that people vote by circling their favorite candidate's photograph with a crayon. The Democratic offer the suggestion that whatever votes are cast be recounted until their candidate wins. In honor of the Democratic candidate's inventive public service, I advocate that voting be conducted over the Internet...
...silent film was to the stage, early photography was to painting, sometimes. Day's early work is full of classical, symbolic subject matter-in 1898 he starved himself for weeks and then put on a crown of thorns so that he could photograph himself as Jesus and lift the camera to the realm of religious...
...exhibit works hard to capture Day's eccentricities. Several large glass cases contain an exquisite series of fine books produced by the firm Copeland and Day, a publishing venture specializing in decadent fin-de-sicle literature that preceded Day's career in photography. Each photograph is matted in the Arts and Crafts style that Day preferred, often using blues and browns as well as off-white. Some mats even include a thin orange square to contrast with the colorless images...